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by Dylan16807 2377 days ago
Any half competent brute force is going to do the simpler patterns first anyway. Knowing the exact set of special characters allowed won't make it significantly faster.

It's a lot like telling someone the exact length of your password. Okay, by knowing that it's 11 characters they can skip testing 1-10... but that only lets them skip 2% of the calculations.